Easily apply predefined material properties from the new Materials tab or from a shortcut on the Surface tab. Large thumbnails provide a sneak peek at the rendering effect. No need to adjust a long list of light reflection settings.

Choose between six predefined reflected environments for a realistic effect that suits your application. Then add a background image to further increase the realistic impact of your scene.

NewEditable Material Colors - Choose from Over 16 million Colors

Materials like glass and plastic come in various colors in real life. FieldView 18 lets you color your surfaces with a virtually unlimited pallet.

Hit the color wheel icon to select from over 16 million colors. Save and reuse your favorites in Custom Colors.

There is no limit to the number of colors used per session.

New Filter Bar for Boundary Types - Easily Group Boundary Conditions by Name

Type a word in the filter bar and the list of Boundary Types automatically updates. Hit Select All, then OK and the corresponding Boundary Surface gets created. In the same way, Deselect All operates on the filtered list.

The Filter Bar supports wildcards with “*” and “?”. It has been designed for performance on 1,000s of entries.

NewData Analytics - Intelligent Light Continues to be at the Forefront of Data Analytics Applied to CFD

The FieldView installation package comes with new MATLAB/Octave scripts for querying CFD results over time, performing a POD analysis and writing the results to PLOT3D. This allows you to close the loop and visualize modes as Iso Surfaces back into FieldView, as shown in this image.

You can now save your videos as individual images to run an analysis on the pixels and avoid having to resample your data.

NewBuilt-in λ2 Vortex Detection Method - New Function is 200x Faster and Much Easier than a Formula

Native support for Q-criterion was introduced in FieldView 17. FieldView 18 continues to help CFD practitioners by adding another widely used vortex identification method,λ2 (Jeong and Hussain, 1995).

The new criterion is directly available from the Function Formula Specification panel.

There is no longer a need to create a complex formula, Plus, the built-in function has been optimized, leading to a 200x speed up.

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Better Support for Building-Cube Method (BCM) and Multi-Physics Solvers.